Does anyone know why the Saturday fixtures are so weirdly spread? 7 kick-offs at 12:30, 10 at 15:00, then another 5 at 17:30. Not sure what the logic behind it is.

No had spotted this, can only imagine it is to try and draw out the excitement of the day. Social media and tv advertising friendly for the people covering the day as a general event.

Looking forward to Tranmere v Spurs and Woking v Watford on tele though as those feel like proper cup games. Not sure on the choice of Wolves v Liverpool though. Understand the no doubt TV audience appeal of the latter. But both managers have shown tendencies to rotate their teams for cup games. It’s telling that Wolves are emailing me the opportunity to buy tickets. Not come close to being eligible to any other games either this season or last.

Does anyone know why the Saturday fixtures are so weirdly spread? 7 kick-offs at 12:30, 10 at 15:00, then another 5 at 17:30. Not sure what the logic behind it is.

No had spotted this, can only imagine it is to try and draw out the excitement of the day. Social media and tv advertising friendly for the people covering the day as a general event.

Looking forward to Tranmere v Spurs and Woking v Watford on tele though as those feel like proper cup games. Not sure on the choice of Wolves v Liverpool though. Understand the no doubt TV audience appeal of the latter. But both managers have shown tendencies to rotate their teams for cup games. It’s telling that Wolves are emailing me the opportunity to buy tickets. Not come close to being eligible to any other games either this season or last.

There are definitely better games to have on the Wolves Liverpool tie. I saw Gary Lineker (I think) do a tweet about why Liverpool and Utd are on so much in the cups a few years ago when this issue came up and he gave a stat out and the audience for their games compared to everyone else is ridiculous.

Betfair have all the 12:30 and 5:30 kick offs live on their website, presumably they have an agreement to show a certain number online during the main TV games and can’t show anything at 3pm due to the blackout.

Was at Saints Derby last night, bloody hell the first half was a dire affair but it picked up when the goals started flying in. Missed the first one though because I was too busy watching someone in the home end get dragged out by the stewards having revealed a Forest shirt under his coat and then been called a nonce by the Derby fans for about 5 minutes. Football never disappoints

Also driving home we passed a group of “youths” singing 10 German bombers because this country is vile

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